A log was a small liquid measure, and the Bible mentions it in one place only: the cleansing of a healed leper in Leviticus 14. After the man’s skin is healed, the priest takes lambs, fine flour and “one log of oil.” He waves the oil before the LORD, pours some into his own left palm, and uses it to touch the man and set him apart again. The amount is tiny, yet it is named each time, a sign of how carefully the ritual was laid out. The whole procedure is described in Leviticus 14:1-32.
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And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:
And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand:
And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:
Matthew George Easton, 1897
The smallest measure for liquids used by the Hebrews (Lev. 14:10, 12, 15, 21, 24), called in the Vulgate sextarius. It is the Hebrew unit of measure of capacity, and is equal to the contents of six ordinary hen’s eggs=the twelfth part of a him, or nearly a pint.
William Smith, 1884
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